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Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *mü. Cognate with Chuvash -им (-im), Turkish mi, Uzbek -mi, Bashkir -ме (-me).
Postposition
𐰢𐰇 (mü)
- interrogative particle
- 𐰇𐰠𐱅𐰃 (ölti, “he/she/it died”) + 𐰢𐰇 (mü) → 𐰇𐰠𐱅𐰃:𐰢𐰇 (ölti:mü, “Did he/she/it die?”)
Usage notes
- Changes form according to the vowel harmony of the word that comes before it.
- 𐰉𐰺 (bar, “there is”) + 𐰢𐰇 (mü) → 𐰉𐰺:𐰍𐰆 (bar:ɣu, “Are there?”)
- 𐰢𐰆 (mu)
- 𐰏𐰇 (gü) (Orkhon)
- 𐰍𐰆 (ɣu) (Orkhon)
References
- Tekin, Talât (1968) A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 174
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*-mi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill